2022 Year in Review: Fund-starved startups sacked nearly 18,000 employeesEdtech companies accounted for a staggering 44% of the total layoffs. In total, 52 startups fired 17,989 employees spread across edtech, co...
30 Dec, 2022, 02.45 PM IST
Byju's clears payment to Aakash, completes fund raise of $800-millionByju's founder and CEO Byju Raveendran had made a personal investment of $400 million (over Rs 3,000 crore) of the total $800 million (abou...
04 Jul, 2022, 05.49 PM IST
Byju's faces litmus test as edtech bubble bursts in IndiaAs India reopens amid 'hybrid normal' and schools and colleges return to normal, edtech platforms see a significant dip in the demand for o...
18 Apr, 2022, 12.20 PM IST
KKR’s Ananya Tripathi may join Byju’s Whitehat Jr as CEOTripathi’s potential entry at Whitehat Jr comes at a time when the coding platform for kids has faced severe criticism for its business pra...
04 Mar, 2022, 06.00 AM IST
Acquihiring rises among startups as talent becomes real differentiatorIn the last one year, over a dozen Indian startups—from Byju's to HealthifyMe—have been on an acquihiring spree to not only fill a market g...
27 Aug, 2021, 09.35 AM IST
How Nykaa's IPO is different from other startups'This is not your typical, hyper funded consumer internet startup, as everything about it is different when compared to the other tech IPO c...
05 Aug, 2021, 10.29 AM IST
A tale of two CEOs: BharatPe & WhiteHat JrBharatPe has become a unicorn and appointed Suhail Sameer as CEO. WhiteHat Jr founder Karan Bajaj has exited the firm, a year after acquisi...
04 Aug, 2021, 09.30 PM IST
Remote jobs to thrive even post-pandemic as companies, employees look for flexibilityFrom a little over 1% of total white-collar openings a year ago, remote/permanent WFH jobs accounted for a sizeable 8% of all active jobs i...
07 Jul, 2021, 11.25 AM IST
Cloud chemists riseIn today's ETtech Morning Dispatch: E-pharmacies witness a huge increase in demand; Indian banks are pulling the plug on cryptocurrencies; ...
05 May, 2021, 08.22 AM IST
Run outFrom Kangana Ranaut being permanently suspended from Twitter, to WhiteHat Jr withdrawing its defamation lawsuit and startups being roped in...
04 May, 2021, 07.46 PM IST
Byju’s to launch Byju’s Future School in push for overseas expansionByju's Future School, which will start off by offering maths and coding tutorials and subsequently be expanded to include science, music, e...
09 Apr, 2021, 09.21 AM IST
WhiteHat Jr hires four senior executives to strengthen leadership teamThe new WhiteHat Jr appointments follow the edtech startup's foray into key global markets, including the US, UK, Australia and New Zealand.
21 Dec, 2020, 02.11 PM IST
Whitehat Jr to foray into Brazil, Mexico; create 1 lakh teaching jobs in India in 3 yearsIn an interview to PTI , WhiteHat Jr Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Karan Bajaj said the barely two-year old online education platform has s...
13 Dec, 2020, 01.35 PM IST
Autobiography of a multimillionaire yogi: The incredible journey and contrarian ideas of Karan BajajWhiteHat Jr, a platform that trains children to code. By selling his startup within 18 months of launch, for $300 million (Rs 2,220 crore) ...
21 Aug, 2020, 03.26 PM IST
Able Jobs raises $1.8 million seed funding from SAIF Partners & othersAble Jobs plans to use the funds raised to build training products for companies and expand to adjacent sectors like fast-moving consumer g...
20 Aug, 2020, 07.57 AM IST
Situations Vacant: 12,000 jobs on offer in edtechThere are currently around 12,000 active openings for permanent job roles across levels at leading edtech companies, according to an estima...
03 Jun, 2020, 03.59 PM IST
E-commerce companies go on a hiring spreeBharatPe has this month hired Nishant Jain from Zomato as its chief business officer and Ankur Jain, a former Walmart Labs executive, as it...
02 Jun, 2020, 04.42 PM IST